Josh Berkus wrote:
> WWW,
>
> > > Yeah, I assembled that list for FOSS.In. In some countries, like
> > > India and Brazil, there's the perception that you have to be American
> > > to be an OSS contributor. I'm trying to show people otherwise.
> >
> > Weird... considering how many of our contributors are not in the US.
>
> Could we consider putting countries in the Contributors list at some point? I
> think it would encourage more people from outside the US to become
> contributors. Currently the project is imbalanced, with 2/3 of our users
> outside the US (or more) and 1/2 our contributors inside the US. A lot of
> that has to do with employers, of course, but we should give all the
> encouragement we can.
This also says to me that it could be more useful to display country of
origin instead of country where the developer is currently living (i.e.
Canada in Greg's case).
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